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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

boy that ran off to sea because his home
was not as pleasant as theirs-changed
her mind and softly murmured: "'Tis
sweet to labor for those we love; no
wonder maidens will we'd" Truly
"love lightens labor" though it may
not lessen it.
Now let me just give you fine quo
tation that l noticed in Miss Wizards
annual address, and which 1 thought
very applicable to every busy woman.
1t is from the secret morning prayer of
Arnold of Rugby, great and good
man of long ago: go Lord, / have
busy world around me; eye, ear and
thought will be needed for all my work
to be done in that busy world. Now
ere enter upon it would commit eye,
ear and thought to thee. Do thou bless
them and keep their work thine, that
as through thy natural laws my heart
beats and my blood flows without any
thought of mine for them, so my
spiritual life may hold on its course at
these times when my mind cannot con-
sciously turn to thee to commit each
particular thought to thy service"
desire now to express our deep in
terest in this Farmers Association,
although unable to attend many of the
meetings. l congratulate you upon
the success that has attended your
efforts to make your sessions both in
teresting and profitable. thank you,
too, for the Difference you have mani
tested towards us, the weaker sex, in
allowing and encouraging us to arrange
and conduct meetings that, although
we do not boast of them, yet we are
glad that they have so far met with
marked approval. Let us remember
what the Quaker said to his doubtful
friend: Thee doesn't know what thee
can do until thee has tried" and still
make greater efforts in the way of i'm
provement. And just here let me say
word in confidence to the sisters.
Let us beware of having it truthfully
asserted, as we have already heard it
limited, that we are worse than the
brethren at keeping late hours with our
meetings. We are glad, too, that the
Board of Agriculture decided to meet
with us again so soon, and sincerely
hope that the meeting may be followed
with good results. Now if they will
happen around our way we will con-
vince them by actual sight, taste and
smell that we know better now how to
raise good rolls, ETC., and to make prime
butter than we do to get the money ont
of them, and will thank them heartily
to tell us that part of it.
But just now l remember we were
not going to have too long meeting
and will hasten to close. AS | have
only taken up few of my subjects, l
will, as the ministers say, reserve the
remainder for future occasion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
Meditation.

Meditation, strictly speaking, is
serious, devout contemplation of divine
things. 1t pre-supposes quiet and soli-
tude, and such meditation is at once a
means of grace and Christian duty. 1t
is something that no one can get along
as well without as with. DIR. Bonar
says, "In order to grow much in grace
we must be much alone. 1t is not in
society, not even Christian society, that
the soul grows most vigorously" In
one single quiet hour it will make more
progress than in days of company
with others. There is always danger
of losing all sense of value of IA
miliar things by neglecting to con-
slider their merit and their Importance
to ourselves. Many wonder why the
Bible seems so uninteresting to them
and why they cannot throw themselves
into it as they can into other books.
1t would be more wonderful if they
could get interested in it, reading it as
many do or taking it up at long inter-
walls. If you treat any other book in
that way it will be dry. Perhaps you
read it by chapters, with no sense Or its
connection, or perhaps you read few
verses in cursory way. All readers
of the Bible should take the advice
that Able Wenkleman gave to young
sculptor when he sent him to the Apollo
Belvedere as the most perfect specimen
of art. I" Go and study it, and if you
see no great beauty in it to captivate
you, study it again; 60 until you feel its
beauty, for be assured it is there" So
readers of the Bible should study it
well, and if they do not at once realize
its beauty they should go again and
again, pray over it, study it, mediate
upon it until you feel it and then it
will impress its lineaments upon your
soul and become the model of your
daily walk and conversational Christian
at Work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
A Brave Ensign.

When we are in earnest, really de-
voted to what we are doing, we forget
ourselves. This it is that makes brave
soldiers. 1t is the same devotion that
helps our brave firemen to peril their
lives to save those of others. A brave
young ensign during the great Peninsula
war was observed wherever the fight
was thickest and strongest to make his
way to the front, holding up the colors,
and to cheer the men by his wonderful
daring and courage. Hour after hour
he stood his ground, and while hun
dreds were falling around him re-
manned unhurt. AT the end of the
engagement his superior officers said to
him, " Carnegie, how did you manage
to stand fire as you did? You should
let some of us into the secret; you were
always to the front, and yet you have
not a scratch What's the secret?"
" 1t is the kings secret, sir, but you
may know it better than do, for you
have served him longer; l remembered
who | was fighting for-my king-and
that gave me strength and courage, so
that | did not think of myself" Is
that the way you serve your King?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
BE a Good Man, Papa"

Leaving home this morning for the
office, we kissed our little four-year-old
goodbye, saying to him, "Be good
boy to-day" He somewhat surprised
us by replying, 81 will; be good
man, papa" Sure enough, we thought.
We need the exhortaton more than he
needs it. And who could give it more
effectually than this guileless prattler?
The words of the little preacher have
been ringing in our ears all day, and
whether we wrote letters or editorials,
pacitied an irate correspondent whose
effusion we could not publish, or
pruned down too lengthy report, we
seemed to hear the sweet child-voice
saying, "Be good man, papa" If
the exhortaton had been given by
Paul or Peter would it have had more
force than coming from the apostle of
innocence? We think not, at least to
our heart. Oh, how many little chill
dren if not in words, yet by the help
lessness of their lives and the truthful
ness of their little hearts, are pleading
most eloquently, Papa, be a good
man." May their tender admonition
be blessed of God to the rescuing of
many precious souls from the wreck
and ruin of sinful lives The Christian.
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A Chance Word.

Who can estimate the value of a
chance word, in the sense in which
there is such thing as chance? Upon
the silence occasioned by the sudden
stopping of a street-car there fell these
words: \" So long as you can contribute
to the pleasure, happiness or comfort
of any human being you are of i'm
portance in the world, and no longer"
Whatever may have been the object of
these words, the thought reached the
hearts of dozen or more passengers,
and it was interesting to note the
changed expression on some listless
faces. In utter inconsistencies of any
effect of her words, the lady from
whose lips they fell passed out into the
street. Perhaps in the great day it may
be her happiness to know that the Lord
then used her tongue for blessing to
some heart which had as yet failed to
comprehend the meaning of its life
struggle, for the truth she emphasized
was truth which all of us need to
realize. Not our personal enjoyment,
nor yet our seeming success in life, but
our part in Gods plans for others, is
the measure of our importance in the
world.-Smddy-Scho Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
Good Pigs.

A correspondent writes: " One of
the finest lots of Yorkshire pigs in this
country can be seen on the premises
of George Lawson of Barre. They dc
not look or act like good travellers, but
are kept as sleek and clean as fancy
horses. Fifty-fve shoats-all quiet,
every trace of Old Nick eliminated
make picture worth seeing. Even
the Jews could not consistently call
such unclean."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

WHEN constipated take a dose of
LaXador. To suffer from liver disease
when so cheap and sure remedy as
Laxador can be had is an actual crime
against ones own health. Price only
twenty-five cents.
IT is hard work for the baby to cut
teeth, and ii should be assisted by the
use of DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup, which
will cool the inflamed gums.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

WE ask our readers to notice the re-
markably liberal offers of the publisher
in furnishing the WATCHMAN with
other papers the coming year and to
call the attention of their neighbors to
the WATCHMAN and the offers. The
publisher will gladly send sample copies
for examination to such as may desire
them. Friends, help us TO increase the
circulation of the WATCHMAN, and a
larger list will increase the ability to add
to its value and usefulness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
ga Happy New Years.

New mercies, new blessings, new light on thy way
New courage, new hope, new strength for each day;
New notes of thanksgiving new chords of delight;
New songs in the morning, new songs in the night;
New stars for thy crown and new tokens of love;
New CLEANS of the glory that waits thee above
New light Of His countenance, radiant and clear
All this be the Joy of thy happy New Year,
Frances Ridiey Hduergal.
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MlOral ann BeIigiuus.
Goodbye, Old Year.

Goodbye, Old Year.
All the year is growing old
And his days nearly told;
He has poured into our gamers all the treasures
manifold.
And he whispers, " am weary
Earth has grown so cold and dreary-
I must steal away and rest. am growing very old"
And we murmur, Go in peace,
You shall find swift release
With the years OF all the ages where earths sullen
surges cease;
Yet-'tis very hard to part,
You havegrown into our heart
We shall miss you, dear old friend still we bid you
Go in peace"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

HONOR is like the eye which cannot
suffer the least impurity without dam
age; it is a precious stone, the price of
which is lessened by the least flaw.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

EDUCATE men without religion and
you make them but clever devils.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

DIR. SAGE's CATARRH REMEDY cures
when every other so-called remedy fails.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

MRS. BONES PAPER.
Mrs. President, Gentlemen and La
dieS:-In trying to decide upon sub
iect to write about for the meeting to-
night there were so many which pre-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
Too Much Candy.

It has often been a query how much
candy boy could eat before he was
satisfied. It is generally supposed by
most boys that they can dispose Of
several pounds and then go hungry.
A proposition was readily accepted
by fourteen-year-old lad on Fourth
street, Sunday afternoon, that, if he
would eat fifty cents worth, it would
cost him nothing, but, if he failed,
he would have to pay the half dollar.
AS he started in, bravely eveing the
delicious chocolate creams, he remarked
that he regretted not having made the
stipulation a dollar.
Quite a crowd gathered round to wit
ness the spectacle. The boy kept
changing from one kind to another and
finally wished to take a run around the
block, as he was getting cold, but was
held to his bargain.
After having sampled all the candies
in the shop, and disposed of about fif-
teen cents worth, he showed signs of
having enough. He took the half-dol-
lar out of his pocket, put it back, and
then began eating again with renewed
vigor for few moments.
After having disposed of twenty cents
worth, he suddenly threw the money
on the counter and said he had all he
wanted, and before he would eat any
more he would fight.
He seemed anxious to get away from
the crowd, which was convulsed with
laughter, and went whistling down the
street, a sadder and a wiser boy
Woodland (Col.) Democrat.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
Owls as Ornaments.

"I never saw anything like it in nv
life" said Chestnut street iewellcr the
other day. "The women are Just rank
crazy over owls and owls heads. They
want them on everything they buy
A lady came in here only yesterday
and got pretty little Swiss watch, with
a perfectly plain, polished case. She
wanted to know whether she could not
have an owls face engraved in the
center of the case, or a circle of little
owls around the edge.
Anything, so it's owls, she said.
I" OF course, we had to do as she
asked, but she'll grumble when she has
TO pay the bill. For the life of me I
can't see what they find pretty in the
staring old yellow-eyed bird" "
A glance around the jewelry store
showed plain evidence of the rage.
All the new styles of bronze clocks
were ornamented with figures of the
solemn bird of night. He stared from
vases and painted umbrella stands, and
from every conceivable ornament.
In silver he was worked up in hun
dred different forms. His head formed
the head of pepper-bOxes, umbrellas
and canes, and he was used to orna-
ment lace-pins, breastpins and hairpins.
A thing that attracted a great many
ladies was a small natural owls head,
covered with brown feathers, with the
big yellow eyes wide open. 1t was set
on a silver back, to be used as breast
pin, and was valued at SO.
Women who would be frightened half
to death at the hoot of an owl on a
dark night are now proud to wear
stuffed owls heads in their fall bonnets
The cheerless bird is also extensively
used for decorating fancy note paper
i Philadelphia Press
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
The Old Family Turnout.

The vehicles of place that has long
been in one family possession become
historic. The wheels and axles of the
present "milking cart, " relegated now
to the farmers transits over the fields to
pastures fair, why, these were once
the sparkling belongings of the froggy
that went q counting.
The ancient family coach, marking
geological periods more accurately
than David ever read in the rocks that
coach whose very rumble was known to
the villagers before it came to sight, an
inseparable belonging of your family;
its front seat the throne of such q sue
cession of kings whose reigns you recall
as you cannot the Presidents, each of
whom taught you more evil than your
careful mother could punish out of
you-oh, "tales of my grandfather,
told to you on that box seat as You rode
outside, and your mother and sisters
made party calls.
How long you stood dreaming before
the dear old arkl Nothing could in
duce you to sell 1t, or to ride in it now.
You put one foot on the lower step,
open the proud patrician door and
look in. You see again that Sunday
morning load all slowed; your fresh
checked mother, the noisy clean bib
snd-tuckered six, your father, grave and
sabbatic, standing as you do now-and
you feel your eyes filing; for thous-
and other coaches have borne them over
land and sea since then, as wide apart,
and there have been chariots more
ethereal for some Boston Globe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18

A shock-halred, frecklcd-faced boy
was noticed sitting alone In the rOtunds
at Castle Garden by Clerk Kilroy.
" Are you waiting for anybody, sonny?"
he asked.
"No, sir. I have nobody in this
country wants me"
Then what are you doing here2"
"WeH, and I don't exactly know"
quickly replied the boy. Il thought
some one would ask me"
When did you arrive, by what ship,
and what is your name2" asked Kilroy.
Il arrived yesterday 10y the Egypt.
Ny name is Timothy Clark. / came
from St. Patrick's Industrial School,
Belfast. Me father is dead, and me
mother was drownded three years ago
coming Lent. l have an aunt, Mrs.
Mary O'Hara, who works in a silk mill
in 4lst street, New York. / don't know
whore that is, but perhaps if she knew
that Timothy Clark, son of Sara Clark,
OF % Linden street, Belfast, was here
she would call on him.
Father Riordan provided for Timothy
that night.-INew York Sun.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
Train Talk.

Funniest thing I've seen lately" said
the candy man on the Rock Island sub
urban trains, was the other day when
man rushed up to the Twenty-second
street station and said TO the station
agent:
"''H-h-has the Joliet train gomez
Yes, there it goes up the road there
docs it s-S-s-top-p-p-p-'
"'Yes, it stops at Thirty-first street.
"' Does it s-s-s-top-p-p-p-a-a-'
Yes, it stops at Thirty-niuth street
"'D Does it s-s-s-top-p-p. p-a-a-ny-
"'Ycs, it stops at Forty seventh,
Fifty-tirst. Englewood, and Blue Island.
- Does it s-s-s-top-p-p a-a-any VIII
wh-wh-'
"'Yes. It stops at all stations. But
what difference does IL make TO you?
You're not aboard
'''J-iust what I'm k-k-kicking about
Does il s-s-top-p-p anywh-wh-where long
enough so ] could r-r-run and overta-ta-
take it2'"-l -lChicaGo Herald.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
a Mink Farm In the He.t.

There are some mighty green men
in the world, said the passenger from
the West, "an' struck one Of 'em a
week or two ago. II I hadn't I wouldn't
be here now.
Last spring went out into western
Nebraska an lOmesteaded q quarter
section. I hadn't seen the land, but took
it, supposin' it WIS all right But when
1 got there found it already inhabited
About $50 acres OF the 1G0 were covered
with prairie dog town.
Well, 1 concluded to settle down
and see what1 could do, an I am mighty
glad now that did. About two weeks
ago I was up to the railroad station,
trying to get trusted for some bacon and
flour an terbackcr, an feclin' right
smart discouraged. 1 was out of money
an grub, an / couldn't see my way out
Of it but to eat prairie dogs, an they're
mighty hard to catch
''But that day was the turning point
In my luck.
While was at the station an Eng
hshman got off the cars, an said as how
he was out West lookin' for place to
make an investment. Said he'd heard
O the fur business, an wanted to know
if he was out in the fur country yet
Fur says 1, there hain't moan
Just then an idea struck me, an /
changed my tune 'Furs. SAYS I, there
hain't no better fur country than this
on 'arth. just come out to my place till
l show you my fur farm
" And he went out with me, and I
shove him the prairie-dOg town, an,
as luck would have it, it was a bright,
sunny day, an the dogs was out scootin'
around by the hundreds.
Talkin' about furs,' says I, what
dye think of that? I've been six yeer
CROWN those mink, an hain't sold a
hide. It's all natural increase. Guess
they's bout 1000 of 'em now, an they
dou''le every year. How many will
there be in ten years?'
g You ought to see that Englishman's
eyes open as he took out his pencil an
figured it up. He made it 7,16S, 900
mink.
'' Well, says I, 'caIl IT 5000, 900 to
be on the safe side. 1t won't cost 81 to
keep EN-, either, an if they're worth a
cent, they're worth 81 apiece There's
millions in it
Then we got right down to business,
an in less than an hour had sold out
for 81, 900 cash, an the next day / paid
$500 for the homestead at the land Office,
got my patent, transferred it to him,
and took the first train for the East.
Step into the buffer with me, partner,
and take drink. - Chicago Herald.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18

score OF insects Familiarity 10y name /;
he has more or loss knuwlcdge. per
h~rs. Of n hundred. and he sees i'm these
"a wonderful variety 81 forms and colors.
But the resources of nature are vastly
greater than any one realizes who has
not made "a special study Of some branch
Of natural history
Thiuk Of Or Rilcv'S collection Of North
American in-cc;- which is said to con
tain 2l.WH ~pccirs, represented 10y more
than l15.G11 pinned specimens, and
others preserved in alcohol or by other
methods.
I.c has given this collection TO the
National Museum, where all who care
to do SO may study the fruits of his
labor Philadelphia Ledger.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-18
HOW DWARF CAPTURED THE SUN.
An Attractive Red Indian Fairy Story

An Attractive Red Indian Fairy Story.
Once upon . time there was dwarf,
so very small in size that when he
killed a wren-an by himself, too
he thought he was a hero in the first
degree, and strutted around in the grass
as proud as if he had slain several
braves of another tribe In single com
bat.
He had one-haf of the wren-a
fair half none of your irregular frac-
tions-cooked at once for 9 feast for
the whole lodge, and had mind to
make himself feather coat. And by
and by he did another wren to
death, and then he got his coat.
But happening to go to sleep one
day in the sunshine, the heat made
the birds skins shrivel up so that
they became quite uncomfortably
small, and the dwarf was furious.
He vowed he would pay the sun out.
So he got his sister to plait a rope
out of hair, and, having made slip
side of the hill, close to the top
of it, just where he had noticed
the sun was accustomed to get
up. And, sure enough, when the
sun rose next morning, it ran its
head right into the sEpknot and got
caught.
The CONSERVATION in nature was
prodigious until the dormouse, re-
marking what was the matter, went
and nibbled the plAit through and
released the luminary, whereupon
everything went on just as If nothing
had happened.
But the dwarf came home to his
sister in high dudgeon. He was not
going, he said, to bother himself about
suns any more. It was not worth his
while He had more serious matters
to attend to. And so he began max
ing preparations for going out on an
other wren hunt
Such, in the bald outline, is red In
dian ''fairy story" which seems to mo
to illustrate fairly well the tone Of
the humor Of the aboriginal Ameri-
can.
The hero is q dwarf-and this is an
essential point in the folk iests Of
people who consider a fine physique the
first qualification of manhood in
his porupous pursuit of very small birds,
and subsequent imitation when he is
successful in the chase, the leading
characteristics Of the red man are slyly
burlesqued.
He succeeds in an impossible exploit,
and in the true spirit of hero, makes
no fuss about it, but when the sun
is let go by the dormouse, he affects to
think that such trifes as sun-catching
are beneath him, and sets himself seri
ously to the task of killing another
wren.
There is q novelty in the flavor of this
fooling and freshness of scene and
circumstances that, so it appears to me,
make the absurd story attractive.-lS San
Francisco Chronicle.